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Well, that's nonsense. I meet all 3 criteria, and in spectacular fashion. Yet I've been in and out of comfort and poverty for much of my adult life. And the rea
by psyc 9y ago
Well, that's nonsense. I meet all 3 criteria, and in spectacular fashion. Yet I've been in and out of comfort and poverty for much of my adult life. And the reason happens to be exactly stated in the article title. You can't make any mistakes or suffer any bad luck or ill health. Really poor people start with nothing, and have nothing to fall back on.
- supreme_sublime 9y agoIt isn't a guarantee that you'll never be in poverty, it is basically a guarantee that you will not be in chronic poverty. Poverty isn't exactly "easy" to escape from, but the steps to get out, or at least give your kids a leg up over yourself, are pretty well known.